THE Housing Executive is running a ‘Rent First’ Week from next Monday.

MACOSQUIN Women’s Institute met in the Parish Hall for the February meeting when president Mrs Daphne King welcomed members along with Lulu Kane who was proposed as a new member by Valerie Cochrane.

ASHERS Baking Company recently nominated the Northern Ireland Hospice as its charity of the year and will be sponsoring the Portstewart Hospice Walk on Saturday, March 31 as part of the NI Hospice Walk Week.

THE Northern Ireland section of inspirational British ex-serviceman Phil Packer’s gruelling 2012-mile round the UK charity marathon gets under way at the University of Ulster’s Coleraine campus next week when he sets out to visit all six counties of Northern Ireland.

GIVE blood and save lives - that’s the call by the Rotary Club of Coleraine.

GREENMOUNT Residents’ Association will hold its Annual General Meeting in the Rope Walk Community Centre, on Thursday, March 1 at 8.30pm.

PORTRUSH lifeboat helped save 32 lives last year and launched a total of 44 times last year.

SHAKE off the winter blues by joining Northern Ireland Cancer Fund for Children for its annual Winter Woolie Walks on Portstewart Strand later this month.

2012 will be an exciting year for The Stroke Association NI, not only are they celebrating their 20th birthday but May will see the launch of the first event Action on Stroke Month.

AT the Causeway U3A’s February monthly meeting held in the Portstewart Golf Club Maurice McAleese the author, artist and former local newspaper editor was the guest speaker.

SDLP councillor Roisin Loftus is backing the Northern Ireland Housing Executive’s investigation into the need for social housing in Kilrea and Moneydig.

THE Ulster Cancer Foundation (UCF), Northern Ireland’s leading local cancer charity, is encouraging people when spring cleaning to donate any unwanted goods to the UCF charity shop in Coleraine.

The Minister for Social Development Nelson McCausland, has responded to a written question by East Derry SDLP Assembly Member John Dallat informing him that the eight houses shown on the BBC programme ‘The Estate’ are to be refurbished beginning this summer.

THE NUMBER of Coleraine people watching television without a licence is more than double that of Portrush and Portstewart combined, according to official figures released this week.

THE next car boot sale, craft fair and coffee morning at the Sandel Centre, Knocklynn Road, Coleraine, on Saturday, February 11.

THE Housing Executive is currently carrying out an exercise to help decide if there is a need for new rented social housing in the Kilrea and Moneydig areas.

WALKING is widely recognised as a great way to keep fit - and with this in mind Coleraine Borough Council is launching Bannside Strollers Beginners Walking Club.

THE TRIANGLE area is a “disappointment” and would not entice visitors to the area now or in the future without substantial investment, according to a former Coleraine mayor.

A SPOKESMAN for the largest church in Ballysally has hit out at the ‘The Estate’, describing it as a “betrayal” of the positive community image which they have worked so hard to create over decades.

THE Ulster Cancer Foundation’s (UCF) Coleraine breast cancer support group is holding its next meeting in Rathain Fold in Union Street, on Thursday, February 9 at 7.30pm.